CRN Channel News

A 25-year Ingram veteran who oversees all of its sales, vendor management and marketing as SVP of U.S. Go-to-Market, Kirk Robinson has now been named Chief Country Executive for the U.S. by the distributor.

For the week ending Jan. 19, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

Software vendor will offer expertise, MDF and other resources to current and new partners as they shift to selling cloud software and services to SMB customers.

"We need partners to bring Riverbed into their customer base where they haven't brought us in before," said Bridget Bisnette, Riverbed vice president global channels and commercial sales.

Ingram Micro Sunday squashed a report that speculated a halt in trading of its parent company's shares could be related to a sale of the $53 billion distribution behemoth to rival Synnex.

For the week ending Jan. 12, CRN looks at IT companies that were unfortunate, unsuccessful or just didn't make good decisions.

For the week ending Jan. 12, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.

The solution provider says buying DST will bolster its financial software prowess and, perhaps more notably, add a trio of health-care-focused solutions to the company's portfolio.

10th Magnitude is also getting a nationwide presence with the Northwest Cadence as it builds a business geared to helping Fortune 1000 businesses execute on digital transformation and migrate to the Microsoft Azure cloud.